Learn more about Accessibility and Inclusive Design

Inclusive Design is "Essential for Some, Useful for All" (W3C:WAI.)

Inclusive Design "considers the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age and other forms of human difference."

-- Source: Inclusive Design Research Centre.

IT/Web Accessibility at Evergreen

Includes information about creating accessible content and Evergreen's Accessible Tech Workgroup.

Related Canvas Guides

• General Accessibility Design Guidelines: This document outlines some general best practices when designing a course for accessibility concerns.

• Accessibility within Canvas: Ensuring an accessible and pleasant experience to all users, regardless of disability, is a key focus of Canvas.

• Creating Accessible Tables in the Rich Content Editor: General guideline: tables should be used for data display, not layout.

Check your Microsoft Office documents for Accessibility

• Use the Accessibility Checker available in Microsoft 365 applications such as Word and Excel to locate and correct issues.
• Use the MS Office 2016 Accessibility Checker for Mac.

User Perspectives: videos by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• Web Accessibility Perspectives: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone: These 10 short videos (7:36 minutes total) provide insight into varying user perspectives.